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A day after having their team ousted from the CONCACAF Champions League, Dynamo fans were handed more bad news as the team confirmed that center back Eddie Robinson underwent knee surgery and is out indefinitely.

“Eddie had a surgical procedure done on the cartilage of his left knee earlier this week,” team trainer Theron Enns said in a written statement provided to the Chronicle on Wednesday. “This is due to an ongoing problem that reached a point where it needed surgery.”

The development is a major setback for one of the Dynamo’s premier defenders. Robinson, 30, was aiming to bounce back strong this upcoming season after what he considered a subpar 2008.

The surgery likely will sideline him for a significant portion of the season.

A message left with Robinson seeking comment was not immediately returned.

The Dynamo fell to Mexican club Atlante FC 3-0 in Tuesday’s decisive leg of their quarterfinal series at Cancun to lose 4-1 in aggregate after the teams played to a 1-1 last week at Robertson Stadium.